Call for Papers

Data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Big Data encompasses various kinds of complex and large scale information that are beyond the processing capabilities of conventional software and databases. Open Data on the other hand can make Big Data more useful and widely accessible. The combination of Open and Big data can benefit users, developers, companies and various kinds of organizations to carry out useful analysis of data pattern and trends, make intelligent decisions, and solve complex problems that can help societies and economies and speed up innovations.

The aim of the Open and Big Data conference (OBD 2016) is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of open and big data and to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Challenges and opportunities in open and big data

Data models and architectures

Security, privacy, and trust

Data protection and integrity

Identity theft, data loss and leakage

Legal and ethical issues

Data analytics and metrics

Data representation and structures

Data management and processing

Data capturing and acquisition

Tools and technologies

QoS in open and big data

Social networks analysis

Data searching and mining

Visualisation of data

Personal data logging and quantified-self

Context-aware data

Personalisation of data

Data economics

Applications of open and big data

Open and linked data

Methodologies and use cases

Usability issues

Storages and network requirements

Network models and protocols

Open and big data in cloud and IoT

PUBLICATION:

All papers accepted for this conference are to be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for a special issues in international journals (see Journal Special Issues section).